Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-11-03

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

Your English-speaking friend who lives in your town has asked for your advice about learning a new sport. Write an email to your friend. In your email:

• recommend a new sport that would be suitable for your friend to learn
• explain how your friend could learn this sport
• suggest that you both learn this sport together

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear ....................................,

 

Student answer (Band 6.0)

Dear Sarah,

I am thrilled to know that, you are planning to learn a new sport activity after your school. I would like to recommend you a cricket for your consideration.This will paticularly fit you well as you are looking for some outdoor activity.

Cricket is an easy game for beginner as well. You could learn this by wathching other team member during game or in a practice net. Apart from that there are many classes in our town where you can join as a teammember for the practice match every fortnight.

Apart from that, I'm also happy to help you after my working hours. Let's catchup next weekend at Marcus Playground. Where we are going to play against our school team. If you have any questions during match you can my coach will be happy to help you. After that we can include you in our team for upcoming matches.

Hoping to see you next saturday.

Best regards,

Corey Doyle

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You address all three points clearly: you recommend cricket, explain that Sarah can learn by watching players or attending local practice sessions, and invite her to learn with you at Marcus Playground. The friendly tone and closing are appropriate for an email to a friend. You also give a reason for the recommendation by linking cricket to her interest in outdoor activity. To make the advice more fully developed, explain why cricket suits Sarah beyond this point—for example, whether it is beginner-friendly, social, or a good way to exercise. The learning advice could also be more specific about how to find or join a class. Overall, the task is covered and the ideas are supported, though some details remain general.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The email has a clear overall shape: recommendation, ways to learn, and an invitation to play together, followed by a suitable closing. This makes the main progression easy to follow. You also use linking expressions such as “Apart from that” and “After that” to connect suggestions. However, repeating “Apart from that” at the start of consecutive paragraphs makes the linking feel mechanical, and “Where we are going to play against our school team” is separated from the invitation in a way that interrupts the flow. Connect that information directly to the preceding sentence, and use a wider range of natural transitions. These changes would make the organisation more consistently smooth and the relationships between ideas clearer.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough topic-related vocabulary to communicate the advice, including “outdoor activity,” “practice net,” “practice match,” and “upcoming matches.” The friendly expressions also suit the relationship with Sarah. However, several word choices, collocations, and spelling errors reduce precision: “sport activity” is awkward, “recommend you a cricket” is not idiomatic, and “teammember” and “paticularly” are misspelled. “Catchup” should be written as two words when used as a verb. Aim to learn common word partnerships and check spelling carefully; this will help you express the same ideas more naturally and accurately. Your vocabulary is functional, but its range and control are not yet consistently flexible.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mix of simple and more developed sentences, and the reader can generally understand your advice. There are, however, several errors in sentence structure, articles, and punctuation. For example, “I am thrilled to know that, you are planning” has an unnecessary comma, while “I would like to recommend you a cricket” has an incorrect grammatical pattern. “If you have any questions during match you can my coach will be happy to help you” combines clauses without a clear structure, and “Where we are going to play” is an incomplete sentence in this context. Practise forming complete clauses and using articles in phrases such as “during the match.” More accurate control of these patterns would make your varied sentences easier to read.

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